Workplace Ready is live, in-person soft skills training for Gen Z graduates and early-career employees. Participants learn how to communicate, build trust, handle feedback, manage professional relationships and understand what their leaders and organisations need from them.
Help your new hires understand the conventions around meetings, emails, presentation, feedback and professional behaviour.
Give early-career employees a better understanding of how managers, senior leaders and colleagues communicate, what they need from them and how trust is built over time.
Show participants how to seek feedback, discuss progression and demonstrate their value in ways that support both their career goals and the organisation they work for.
The workplace gap
Graduates and young professionals are often expected to navigate important workplace situations before anyone has taught them how. Workplace Ready makes those expectations clear before trial and error does.
View course modulesDelivered across two half-day sessions with follow-up check-ins, Workplace Ready turns unspoken workplace expectations into practical skills that participants can understand, discuss and use straight away.
Professional presentation, body language, first impressions and how to carry yourself appropriately across different workplace situations.
How to speak, listen effectively and read the room when working with colleagues, senior leaders and clients from different generations.
From response etiquette, to how to use appropriate tone and structure to ensure that professional email communication lands as intended.
How to manage relationships with senior leaders, peers and stakeholders with confidence, good judgement and an understanding of different priorities.
Setting goals, seeking feedback and approaching performance and career progression conversations with clarity and realistic expectations.
How to build valuable relationships inside the organisation and develop external industry connections with authenticity and purpose.
Managing pressure, self-doubt and setbacks while developing the resilience needed to build a fulfilling and sustainable career from day one.
How to receive critique, disagree professionally and navigate difficult workplace dynamics without unnecessarily damaging relationships or reputation.
For an employee who has been told they're attending a training program, the natural question is: 'What will I get out of it?'
Workplace Ready gives them a clear answer.
As a participant, they’ll learn to communicate with greater credibility, build better relationships with their managers and colleagues, approach feedback and career progression conversations effectively, and feel more prepared when unfamiliar professional situations arise.
The aim is to give ambitious early-career employees a better understanding of the environment they work in, so they can pursue their goals with greater awareness of the people and the business around them.
For Business owners, HR & L&D teams
If you are planning a graduate program or strengthening early-career development, talk to Carli about whether Workplace Ready is the right fit for your business.
Book a consultationWorkplace Ready was founded, designed and is delivered by Carli Ratcliff.
Carli’s career spans small business, entrepreneurship, PR, journalism, corporate leadership, communications and teaching. She spent 15 years working as a journalist for publications including The South China Morning Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, Vogue Living, and Monocle, and has led creative, marketing, digital and communications teams across corporate, government, technology and not-for-profit organisations. She also holds a Master of Management from the UTS Graduate School of Business.
Carli has coached clients including Apple, the Commonwealth Bank, ING, Qantas, Medicare, Brisbane City Council, Zip Pay and Deakin University. She regularly teaches for Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, and has presented at Mid Sweden University (Graduate School of Ecotechnology and Sustainable Development), Harvard University (Graduate School of Design), the UNESCO Creative Cities Conference, and TEDx.
Carli brings practical, real-life context to the workplace situations participants are learning to navigate, drawing on her career across multiple sectors and diverse professional environments.
Common Questions
Practical answers to help you decide whether Workplace Ready fits your business, graduate onboarding, or early-career development program.
Workplace Ready can sit alongside your existing graduate onboarding or early-career development program, giving employees practical guidance on the professional situations they are expected to navigate every day.
If you have particular challenges around communication, feedback, manager or client relationships, professional expectations, or career progression, please include them below.
You don’t need to have every detail worked out. An approximate cohort size, preferred timing and a little context about your business is enough to get the conversation started.